Orchestra Study Scores

The three-movement piece has a traditional fast-slow-fast form, but with individual formal characteristics in each movement. In the very first movement, the soloist begins immediately after a tutti ch...

Universal Edition introduces a new study score standard. These completely redesigned scores offer an unparalleled insight into the music of the last hundred years. Great care has been taken to select...

The large-scale form of Symphony No. 9 is unusual in a number of ways. It reminds in no way of the ninth symphonies of famous predecessors. Two slow movements, an Andante comodo at the beginning and a...

Universal Edition continues its new study score standard. These completely redesigned scores offer an unparalleled insight into the music of the last hundred years. Great care has been taken to select...

Gustav Mahler’s 'Funeral Rites' (literally translated: 'Celebration of the Dead') was initially conceived as the first movement of a symphony in C minor and completed in 1888. After certain alteration...

The songs are conceived as a whole, as if a wayfarer, with his destiny, is now looking out into the world and is wandering from place to place. … The most painful experiences were bound to come… (Gust...

This edition is based on the fi rst printed score published in 1927 (Universal Edition UE 8943), and was compared with Kodály’s own conductor’s copy, three additional scores held in the Budapest Zoltá...

Here the fourths, springing from an entirely different expressive urge, shape themselves into a defi nite horn theme, spread themselves out architectonically over the whole piece, and place their stam...

Composed between the spring of 1906 and July of the same year, the Chamber Symphony op. 9 for 15 solo instruments represents a point of culmination in Schoenberg's artistic development, the consequenc...

Janácek did not live to see his final opera 'Z mrtvého domu' ('From the House of the Dead') performed. The work was so different from his previous operas in its often chamber-like orchestration and it...

Nach dem Text der kritischen Partiturausgabe der Kurt Weill Edition Ser. II, Vol. 2.

Friedrich Cerhas Konzert für Schlagzeug und Orchester setzt einen Reichtum an Klangfinessen und unglaublichen Energieschüben frei, der staunen lässt.' (Salzburger Nachrichten)

Jagden und Formen is so immediately gripping that it is already considered a classic of the modern age. As a 'work-in-progress' that has grown over the years, Jagden und Formen has reached its final...

Titan, the early five-movement version of the Symphony No. 1, has never been published before. Universal Edition is proud to make this score available for the first time in connection with the Complet...

Vereinfachte Studier-und Dirigierpartitur

Prélude für Orchester. Einem akustischen Planetarium gleich, dominieren sekundgeschichtete Klänge ein harmonisch dichtes Feld, welchem die Töne unserer Planeten und der Sonne zugrunde liegen. Leicht b...

Großes Orchester

Großes Orchester

Work for Orchestra written in 1920.